Happy Birthday to me!

+ 1 more candle =P

This year I didn't feel the excitement and apprehension of turning older as I have already thought of myself this old at the beginning of the year. I think the stress has aged me. Both mentally and physically. Haha.

This year is pretty good so far, hectic but rewarding as I take stock of my achievements.Emotionally I have matured and I have allowed myself to try new things and accept my faults and failures.

We have also taken a step into "adulthood" and I'm excited about the new commitment. Building a new home takes patience and I'm looking forward to it!

Happy New Year 2013!

A good start to a new year!

May it be filled with happiness and good health and lots of laughter with friends and love ones!

@ Mouth Restaurant at Vivocity

Highlights of August

At Marina Barrage

My favourite

Flying the flag high

National Day Preview Celebrations. First time in my life. Thanks to hubby for balloting the tickets :)

Fireworks!

Skinny Pizza- English Breakfast Pizza

Refreshing Lychee drink

Hotcakes!

Ah ma's beef stew

yummy meals!

Kway Chap

Rion enjoying his food

View From OCBC Tower

Looking at the tracks

Playing with bubbles

Vistors from Japan! Kei and family at Tanjong Pagar Railway station (now default)

It's always amazing to view our hometown through vistor's eyes

Gorgeous sunset at Night Safari

Kei visiting Night Safari. It was our first time too!

Hanging out with friends

Sukiyaki

Summer drinks to keep cool

And I started my addiction and love for LEGO. Amassing a couple this month.

My first trip to Punggol

Last Sat, Z had a housewarming cum 1 month baby celebration. It was my first time at SengKang/ Punggol and boy, it was far! Rce came by and picked me up before going to Compasspoint to pick E. The joke was neither one of us knew where Compasspoint was! I though we had to go Woodlands (the shopping mall is Causeway point) but later realised that it's actually at Sengkang. Along the way on CTE, Rce looked at the petrol gauge and calmly said we need to pump petrol.. Wahahaha. Ok lah, there's another 1 bars before we reached "E" but it was so comical! Later when we picked E up and I told Rce.. "I think we have to pump petrol after the trip to Z place" and E started laughing saying we are so cute. (There were lots if Whatsapps activity on the expressway)

Anyhow, baby Claris was asleep and we ooh and aww at her cuteness and thick hair and catch up for an hr or so.

Afterwards, we dropped by a air con kopitiam looking cafe ( serves western and chineses food) and we had kopi and teh. The place is aptly named "The Coffee Place".

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Baby Sophia

My dearest friend hunnie has given birth to a baby girl yesterday at 1816. Woot!

The strangest thing was I had a dream of her having contractions and was going to give birth soon on Friday night/ Sat morning! I dreamt that she was telling me that it's painful and she was lying on the bed. I MSG her and she told me she was having contractions since 3 am! Wow ! That was strange and pyschic. She had contractions the entire Sat with an interval of 5-8 mins, and I was informed by Gavin that she was in labour suite on Sun when I MSG her around 1pm.

Hehe. Now baby Sophia and my mummy share the same birthday :)

I'm so happy that both of them are well and healthy and congratulations once again to hunnie and Gavin with their lovely Sophia!

Uncle & auntie Mooch are looking forward to meeting you!

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Celebrating mummy's Birthday

Today my mummy turns *ahem* in her fifties. We had an early birthday celebration for her at Wan Hao, Sg Marriot Hotel.

We had a feast eating dim sum and it's worth every penny!


Clockwise from left: Braised beef tendons with radish (so good and tender), 烧肉(BBQ pork), yam cake with 香肠(Chinese sausage) and 虾交 (prawn dumplings )


Chicken with frog leg and Chinese sausage


Salmon and Garoupa Siew Mai


Clockwise from left: Fish congee, deep fried enoki mushrooms (I can't remember what else is in there), coffee pork and prawn and beancurd in ma la sauce


Clockwise from left: Chinese bai cai, bass fish fillet with Nonya sauce, 上汤水交 ( dumplings in soup) and an assortment of custard bun, gyoza,chicken Siew Mai, pork bun.

There's also a yam pastry with minced meat and shrimp paste and char Siew pastry (not pictured)

We walked around Orchard and bought a bag for mummy. I was disappointed to find the Japanese shop selling delicate pastries and Mochi no longer at Takashimaya B2, near Cold Storage. They had such pretty stuffs!

We moved on to GWC and shared a spicy tuna pasta and ceaser salad amongst us at Coffee Bean.

Today we bought a strawberry shortcake and sang "Happy Birthday!"
Wishing mummy good health and happiness always!



~Note: this post was written 14/3, 12:15pm after the previous post was eaten up!

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CNY has officially ended.. Bunnies bunnies all the way ...

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Valentine's day card from hubby

My favourite PM. Loved it! Thanks hubby!













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Makan_11: CNY dinner

The above dishes are roughly how my family's standard CNY eve's dinner looks like yearly before I got married.

Ever since we got married, hubby and I had our 团圆饭 together with my in laws and my mum. This year I missed her soup so much and I pestered her to make it before CNY ends today.

It doesn't look very nice in the picture but it taste soooo good! oh! Plus my ah ma's chilli are to die for! Yums!

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Happy Bunny bountiful New year! 恭喜发财！

Love: The Mooch

Happy New Year 2011 peeps!

Love: The Mooch

Sweets and candies and all things nice

the beef taste much better than it looks

gift swap. pretty bling bling bag charm but I've got no where to hang it.

simply love this cat necklace. Oh E, you know me so well :)

an assortment of gifts from work. these people are so sweet. 

if only my boss is sweet. hah! even my boss's boss gave me a present.

I feel bad, I didn't get anything for them :(

handmade sweets from the company. pretty colours.

X'mas day was spent at Ron's place. No pictures were taken.. too caught up with all the food and kids. There is a picture of the cupcakes we brought in, but it's still in my camera.. need to transfer it over. will post it if I remember. really pretty.